The Speaker, Or, Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers and Disposed Under Proper Heads: With a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking : to which are Prefixed Two Essays, I. On Elocution, II. On Reading Works of Taste |
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He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he urdertakes : for he must be
forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one . Some people will never learn
any thing ; for this reason , because they understand every thing too soon .
He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he urdertakes : for he must be
forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one . Some people will never learn
any thing ; for this reason , because they understand every thing too soon .
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... on this side of religious and moral duties . LORD CHESTERFIELD . CHAP . VIII
. ON GOOD SENSE . Were I to explain what I understand by Good Sense , 1
should call it right reason ; but right reason that arises not from fornal and ...
... on this side of religious and moral duties . LORD CHESTERFIELD . CHAP . VIII
. ON GOOD SENSE . Were I to explain what I understand by Good Sense , 1
should call it right reason ; but right reason that arises not from fornal and ...
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To these arguments , those who adopt the opinion that anger should be entirely
suppressed , reply : . You tell us , anger is natural to man ; but nothing is more
natural to man than reason , mildness , and benevolence . Now with what
propriety ...
To these arguments , those who adopt the opinion that anger should be entirely
suppressed , reply : . You tell us , anger is natural to man ; but nothing is more
natural to man than reason , mildness , and benevolence . Now with what
propriety ...
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For this reason , short Parliaments have been less corrupt than long ones ; they
are observed , like streams of water , always to grow more impure , the greater
distance they run from the fountain - head . I am aware it may be said , that
frequent ...
For this reason , short Parliaments have been less corrupt than long ones ; they
are observed , like streams of water , always to grow more impure , the greater
distance they run from the fountain - head . I am aware it may be said , that
frequent ...
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What scrambling for property ! What perils in the pursuit ! What solicitude in the
maintenance ! And why all this ? To what purpose , what end ? Or is not the
reason plain ? Is it not , that wealth may continually procure us whatever we fancy
good ...
What scrambling for property ! What perils in the pursuit ! What solicitude in the
maintenance ! And why all this ? To what purpose , what end ? Or is not the
reason plain ? Is it not , that wealth may continually procure us whatever we fancy
good ...
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Informação bibliográfica
| Título | The Speaker, Or, Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers and Disposed Under Proper Heads: With a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking : to which are Prefixed Two Essays, I. On Elocution, II. On Reading Works of Taste |
| Autor | William Enfield |
| Editora | F.C. and J. Rivington, 1815 |
| Original de | Universidade do Estado de Ohio |
| Digitalizado | 30 Set 2014 |
| Número de páginas | 346 páginas |
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